Recasting Folk in the Himalayas Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility /
Stefan Fiol.
- Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, (c)2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015).
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Folklore studies in a multicultural world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Geneologies of the Folk Concept in Colonial Uttarakhand""; ""2 Mohan Upreti and the Assimilation of Folk Music in Nehruvian India""; ""3 Turning Dying Folk into Living Folk: The Musical Activism of Narendra Singh Negi""; ""4 The Folk Sound without the Folk Body: Sohan Lal and the Rhizophonics of Dhol-Damaun""; ""5 Professional Female Singers and the Gendering of Folk""; ""6 The Goddess Plugged In: Pritam Bhartwan and the Commodification of Possession Rituals"" ""Conclusion""""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""